Is there a way to make the album art respect the aspect ratio of the picture ? Sometimes the cover is a DVD cover but is displayed as a 'square'.I don't find any setting related to aspect ratio in the Album art settings

I love this plugin but it would be nice if it would be able to show me the length of a track since it can display the playback time it is at it would be nice if it could be able to the tracks total duration. I also liked the textbloxk formatting but is there any documentation on that anywhere or are %artist% %title% and %playback_time% the only features?

You can access the list of all title formatting from within foobar2000 main menu : Help>Title formatting helpThose commands works in foobar in general, they do not belong to this this specific component

I think I was trying to create another blank box to hide the right side of the taskbar.

Would it be possible to change the color of the trackbar borders and/or hide them?

edit: I still get the error as soon as I try to play anything, even after uninstalling/reinstalling Deskband, and it keeps recurring even if I click Continue. I've tried replacing config.js with one of the premade setups, but it didn't fix it. Please help

You can access the list of all title formatting from within foobar2000 main menu : Help>Title formatting helpThose commands works in foobar in general, they do not belong to this this specific component

Thanks i didn't know that foobar had these features. I'm not using it for that long and you don't use features like that very often any way.

I think I was trying to create another blank box to hide the right side of the taskbar.

Would it be possible to change the color of the trackbar borders and/or hide them?

edit: I still get the error as soon as I try to play anything, even after uninstalling/reinstalling Deskband, and it keeps recurring even if I click Continue. I've tried replacing config.js with one of the premade setups, but it didn't fix it. Please help

you should be able to. if you right click on the taskbar (deskband) and click on settings you should be able to use the interface to configure everything. You can then uncheck the visible mark on the differen trackbars.

-EDIT- Nevermind just noticed you were asking for the borders not the whole thing-EDIT2- Also make sure that there are no text textblocks using null in the format if you use "" instead of null it doesn't throw the error. This one works config.js the icons don't show because i don'have them of course

I think I was trying to create another blank box to hide the right side of the taskbar.

Would it be possible to change the color of the trackbar borders and/or hide them?

edit: I still get the error as soon as I try to play anything, even after uninstalling/reinstalling Deskband, and it keeps recurring even if I click Continue. I've tried replacing config.js with one of the premade setups, but it didn't fix it. Please help

you should be able to. if you right click on the taskbar (deskband) and click on settings you should be able to use the interface to configure everything. You can then uncheck the visible mark on the differen trackbars.

-EDIT- Nevermind just noticed you were asking for the borders not the whole thing-EDIT2- Also make sure that there are no text textblocks using null in the format if you use "" instead of null it doesn't throw the error. This one works config.js the icons don't show because i don'have them of course

I'm using that config.js and I still get the recurring error instead of the deskband appearing, and foobar is rendered unusable. Perhaps it's a problem elsewhere.

Hi aeidein!Your error is caused by a null Format string in your config. It it in last text block, here:"Name": "invisiblock: R trackbar","Format": null, <--- This one"FontName": "Segoe UI"Don't know how it got there, I'll try to add some checks, as well as trackbar border colors.

Hamallainen: I will add ability to preserve aspect ration in next build.

It got fixed, somehow!I tried fixing/replacing/deleting config.js; I even tried deleting %AppData%\Deskband and reinstalling, but it still threw an error. Maybe it was still cached somewhere or something? However, after another uninstall/reinstall (maybe I did it properly this time - I restarted explorer.exe after every step), it went back to the default profile, no error.

Thank you both!

Bug: In floating mode, explorer.exe crashes if you try to change the transparency value of the background color. Not a big deal personally, since I was just playing around and don't plan on using it that way, but thought I'd let you know.

Suggestion: If the change trackbar border color / remove trackbar border options are implemented, perhaps the user could also choose a background color for the trackbars?

I could also see vertical trackbars being useful (e.g. for vertical layouts when the taskbar is on the left/right side of the screen). I personally would love to put a vertical volume bar flush against the album art.

Hi,I used the previous deskband controls without problems. Downloaded the latest version in W7, installed according to instructions. I can display it on the taskbar, configure it fully, but when I try to use it to control foobar, everything locks up, cannot use mouse on anything, I get a notification window and I have to access taskmanager through keyboard with ctr/alt/del to shut foobar down and take deskband off the taskbar.Restarting foobar then without deskband control works fine.

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kraut, emte: please tell me exact version of foobar, its list of plugins, your deskband controls config and I will try to investigate this.You can send this info on my email or as private message here.

I installed DeskBand Controls and configure it. Works perfect, but after restart when i RMB click 'settings' this window appears:

Plugin works fine but i cant go to settings anymore.

I use Windows 7 64bit

ps. Is the plug reads only the images in jpg format (albumart)? PNG format will be nice too. Great plug btw!

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************** Exception Text **************System.Windows.Markup.XamlParseException: Could not load file or assembly 'file:///E:\---[_download_]---\Foobar2000DeskbandControlsNET\Bin\Xceed.Wpf.Toolkit.dll' or one of its dependencies. Operation is not supported. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131515) ---> System.NotSupportedException: An attempt was made to load an assembly from a network location which would have caused the assembly to be sandboxed in previous versions of the .NET Framework. This release of the .NET Framework does not enable CAS policy by default, so this load may be dangerous. If this load is not intended to sandbox the assembly, please enable the loadFromRemoteSources switch. See http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=155569 for more information. --- End of inner exception stack trace --- at System.Windows.Markup.WpfXamlLoader.Load(XamlReader xamlReader, IXamlObjectWriterFactory writerFactory, Boolean skipJournaledProperties, Object rootObject, XamlObjectWriterSettings settings, Uri baseUri) at System.Windows.Markup.WpfXamlLoader.LoadBaml(XamlReader xamlReader, Boolean skipJournaledProperties, Object rootObject, XamlAccessLevel accessLevel, Uri baseUri) at System.Windows.Markup.XamlReader.LoadBaml(Stream stream, ParserContext parserContext, Object parent, Boolean closeStream) at System.Windows.Application.LoadComponent(Object component, Uri resourceLocator) at Deskband.MainBand.OnSettingsMenuItemClick(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Command.Invoke() at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmCommand(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ActiveXImpl.System.Windows.Forms.IWindowTarget.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

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Hi maxim7191Both your issues are windows limitations.Docked deskband cannot be moved, and floating deskaband(s) such as language indicator always appears on the left side.Deskband is hosted in explorer.exe, and in windows one program cannot activate another program (e.g. bring it's window to front). So deskband sends command to foobar that tells it to show itself, and again, windows prevents programs from pop-out to front as they want. I guess this was done to prevent viruses or other malicious programs activate itself without user permission.

radi0n: you forget to unlock downloaded zip. This was many times mentioned here and in readme file. To fix it - remove everything, re-download, unblock and try again. Also, I recommend to copy deskband controls to system disk [C] before install. JPGs and PNGs are supported, as well as any other image format that .NET framework knows about.

radi0n: you forget to unlock downloaded zip. This was many times mentioned here and in readme file. To fix it - remove everything, re-download, unblock and try again. Also, I recommend to copy deskband controls to system disk [C] before install. JPGs and PNGs are supported, as well as any other image format that .NET framework knows about.

After few restarts its working again. I dont know what You mean by 'unblock'. I download, extract with winrar, install foobar plugin and run Register Deskband.cmd. Configured and after restart i cant go to settings. But now is ok.But plugin still dont read .PNG files. For example. In catalog with mp3 i have mp3 files and file" 'front.png' - > plugin show only stub image. I change file format to .jpg and plugin show albumart ok.

Very nice Plugin! I can't get any text block to show up i know that they are there, but the font is not visible . And yes, ich checked colors, sizes, transparency and the "visible" checkbox ) Did this occur to anyone?